Section: Dunya TV (Pakistan)
Kerry to visit China this week, then SKorea
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet senior officials in China late this week, and then stop in Seoul for talks with South Korean leaders, the State Department announced Monday.Kerry will make the Asia trip after high-stakes talks in Russia due Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin, where the tensions over Ukraine,...
Poles vote for president, incumbent Komorowski tipped to win
WARSAW (AFP) – Poles vote Sunday in the first round of a presidential election after a lacklustre campaign focused on national security and social issues, with incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski expected to win, but not without a struggle.The 62-year-old historian, who was elected in 2010 and is close to the governing centrist Civic Platform...
Russia fetes WWII victory with huge military parade
Moscow (AFP) – Russia readied for a grandiose Red Square military parade Saturday to mark 70 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but Western leaders were going to stay away due to the Ukraine crisis.New tanks, mammoth nuclear missile systems and some 16,000 troops were set to sweep past the Kremlin under the gaze of...
Ukraine breaks with Russia as it marks WWII anniversary amid fighting
KIEV (AFP) – A new symbol, date and even name: Ukraine is distancing itself from Russia as it marks 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany in World War II while locked in a brutal conflict with pro-Moscow rebels.For the first time the ex-Soviet country that lost millions of soldiers and civilians in fighting on both sides of the frontline...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko slams ‘appeasement’ of Moscow
GDANSK (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday criticised what he termed a policy of appeasement towards Russia in the context of the separatist conflict in Ukraines east.Crimes are committed today in the 21st century amid the aggression against my country Ukraine, despite the cruelest lessons of the past, Poroshenko said...
Football: Vidal leads Sevilla rout, Napoli held
PARIS (AFP) – A brace of stunning goals from Aleix Vidal helped defending champions Sevilla to a commanding 3-0 victory over Fiorentina in the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday.In Italy, Napoli dominated large parts of their first leg match against Dnipro, but the Ukrainian underdogs scrapped it out for an unlikely 1-1...
Separatists poised for offensive in Ukraine: US
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Pro-Russian separatists appear to be making preparations for a fresh offensive in eastern Ukraine, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told lawmakers on Wednesday.The Pentagon chief also said that sanctions imposed by European countries and a decline in oil prices were the most effective way to exert pressure on Russia...
Away goals top of Guardiola’s priority list in Barcelona
Barcelona (AFP) – Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola believes his side must score in his old stomping ground at the Camp Nou on Wednesday to have any chance of eliminating Barcelona in their Champions League semi-final.Guardiola is Barcas most successful ever coach having won 14 trophies in four years in charge between 2008 and 2012, but...
Maria Sharapova advances to 3rd round of Madrid Open
MADRID (AP) – Maria Sharapova advanced to the third round of the Madrid Open by beating Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday.The third-seeded Russian and defending champion broke Duque-Marinos serve four times while saving three break points on her own serve.She is someone who, if you give her time, creates angles, slices...
EU, NATO try to counter Russian propaganda
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Western powers are getting set to counter an expertly crafted Russian disinformation campaign over Ukraine which has left them wrong-footed too many times for comfort.The aim is to win the daily battle for the news headlines, to get the EU and NATO story out to show that Russias message falls well short of the truth.In...
